A Woodstock woman is in critical condition after being struck by lightning at the Country Thunder music festival in Wisconsin early Friday morning, authorities said. Kenosha County sheriff’s officials said Brittney Prehn, 22, was unconscious when they arrived at the fairgrounds at 12:36 a.m. after she…

Elburn is just about ready for its close-up, as a backdrop for a scene in a new HBO television show. Workmen have spent the past few weeks turning the interior of the former Ream’s Meat Market at 128 N. Main St. (Route 47) into a 1950s-era…

The two Gurnee Police officers who shot and killed a woman who pointed a rifle at them in May acted reasonably and appropriately, according to an investigation by the Lake County state’s attorney’s office. The investigation report was made available to the public Friday. In it,…

A fire contained to a single unit displaced some residents at an apartment complex Friday in Mount Prospect. The fire Friday evening at the Colony Country complex on Yarmouth Place was contained to one unit, but four other units suffered water damage in the building of…

Twelve-year-old David Pantoja returned to his lifelong home in Prospect Heights Friday to find it horribly transformed. Accompanying his father, Rodrigo, to recover belongings from their fire-ravaged building at the River Trails condominium complex, David said he was overwhelmed by both the mess and the smell.…

An Illinois woman is in critical condition after being struck by lightning at the Country Thunder music festival early Friday morning, authorities said. Kenosha County sheriff’s officials said Brittney Prehn, 22, was unconscious when they arrived at the fairgrounds at 12:36 a.m. after she was struck…

Elburn is just about ready for its close-up, as a backdrop for a scene in a new HBO television show. Workmen have spent the past few weeks turning the interior of the former Ream’s Meat Market at 128 N. Main St. (Route 47) into a 1950s-era…

In World Relief’s new Carol Stream offices are dry-erase boards tracking refugee arrivals to the suburbs. In most years, World Relief DuPage/Aurora would cover the so-called “arrival boards” with lists of families the nonprofit was expecting to resettle over two or three months. But the three…

Plans for a three-story Topgolf driving range have been cut from a proposed development in Lincolnshire, months after the concept was criticized by residents. Updated documents for the project, which focuses on a 43-acre office campus on Half Day Road west of the Tri-State Tollway, no…

Prospect Heights Fire Chief Drew Smith confirmed Friday that a juvenile who would not be named had accidentally started the fire that caused massive damage to three buildings of the River Trails Condominium complex. The investigation determined no criminal intent by the juvenile, Smith added. related…

A 22-year-old Aurora man has been arrested and charged with the armed robbery of a near westside convenience store in late June in which a shot was fired into a ceiling during a struggle, according to police and court records. Clayton W. Vaughan, of the 900…

A seasonal Cook County Forest Preserve District employee who authorities say caused a fatal, five-car crash last month had the drug THC in his system at the time of the collision, prosecutors said. Caleb Rallings of Hillside was ordered held on $50,000 bail Thursday after a…

As a quartet from Marmion Academy sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the opening of the 150th annual Kane County Fair Thursday, Norm Skala rose from his wheelchair and saluted the flag. The 95-year-old Army veteran, who rode horses while in a cavalry unit in India during…

The Prospect Heights community and others from across the area are rallying to help nearly 100 families left homeless by Wednesday’s massive apartment fire. American Red Cross officials on Thursday said local churches are opening their doors for shelter, stores are donating food and neighbors are…

An estimated $3 million in fire and water damage at the Gold Pyramid House in Wadsworth will likely force its owners to tear down and rebuild the iconic structure, a family spokeswoman said Thursday. Yolanda Fierro said the owners of the famous house on the 37000…

“The most fun you can have going 4 mph” is coming to an area of northwest Naperville that’s quickly growing into an entertainment district. WhirlyBall plans to build a facility at 3103 Odyssey Ave. near where Topgolf opened in 2015 and where an ice arena and…

Elk Grove Village has recommended a tax incentive for a new $1 billion technology park ahead of a groundbreaking ceremony next week. The village board voted this week to give Elk Grove Technology Park a property tax break for 85 acres at the former Busse Farm…

A man wearing a yellow construction helmet and worksite clothes attempted to rob a TCF Bank about noon Wednesday inside a Des Plaines Jewel-Osco store, authorities say. Authorities described the suspect who entered the store at 1500 Lee St. as a white man in his late…

Eric Bowman believes he’ll find nothing worth saving when authorities allow him back into his family’s apartment, one of dozens left in ruins Wednesday after a massive fire ripped through three Prospect Heights condominium buildings. But some losses stand out more than others: family photos, childhood…

Seizing a few minutes with Donald Trump Tuesday after he walked back his dismissal of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam tried an anecdote to make a point to the president. The Wheaton Republican joined a chorus of disapproval that condemned Trump…